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* ![California Flu Deaths Rise Sharply In January](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43cb550a399bb5eb/69892973656a3fd92abd3b9b/flu-season.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 2, 2018  
## [This Year’s Deadly Flu Season Has Finally Peaked, CDC Says](https://time.com/5183507/flu-season-peaked/)  
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* ![Flu clinic](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8702c4a74da6a5db/698928ba7cdbac513ad5c136/flu-shot1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 28, 2018  
## [Why Flu Outbreaks Have Been the Worst in Nearly a Decade](https://time.com/5179131/the-flu-vaccine-worst-year/)  
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* ![Flu clinic](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8702c4a74da6a5db/698928ba7cdbac513ad5c136/flu-shot1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 23, 2018  
## [Flu Season May Be Starting to Wind Down](https://time.com/5172552/flu-season-cdc-update/)  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)  
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* ![Close-up hands,nurses are vaccinations to patients using the syringe.Doctor vaccinating women in hospital.Are treated by the use of sterile injectable upper arm. injection](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12ed57271a95de60/6989276e929fad2bddbef9a6/3-year-old-flu-death-no-flu-shot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 13, 2018  
## [A 3-Year-Old Indiana Girl Who Was Not Vaccinated Died From the Flu This Week](https://time.com/5156503/a-3-year-old-indiana-girl-who-was-not-vaccinated-died-from-the-flu-this-week/)  
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* ![Flu Shots at CVS](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt14fe31870c986c08/698926e20a4a2215a69d1b41/flu-shot-sign.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 9, 2018  
## [10 More Kids Have Died This Flu Season](https://time.com/5141414/cdc-flu-report-flu-season-peak/)  
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Feb 6, 2018  
## [What to Eat (and Drink) When You Have the Flu](https://time.com/5131682/what-to-eat-and-drink-when-you-have-the-flu/)  
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## [7-Year-Old Indiana Girl Dies After Being Diagnosed With Flu, Scarlet Fever and Strep Throat](https://time.com/5133825/indiana-flu-death-savanna-jessie/)  
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* ![California Flu Deaths Rise Sharply In January](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb877c2d917980491/6988fa56bc6cfc984a3e4dbb/flu-vaccine.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 2, 2018  
## [53 Children Have Died From Flu This Year, CDC Says](https://time.com/5130415/cdc-flu-update-high-hospitalization-rates/)  
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Jan 31, 2018  
## [4-Year-Old's Flu Death Confirmed as New Jersey's First Influenza Fatality](https://time.com/5127213/new-jersey-4-year-old-flu-fatality/)  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)  
by Alix Langone
* ![Swine flu vaccination](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef06be4e28052ed9/6988f8a8096a94bf336a1266/flu-shot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
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## [Just Breathing May Be Enough to Spread the Flu](https://time.com/5109729/flu-spread-breathing/)  
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Jan 19, 2018  
## [How the Biggest Flu Outbreak in Years Spread Across the U.S.](https://time.com/5108077/2018-flu-map/)  
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Jan 11, 2018  
## [The Flu Killed a Healthy 21-Year-Old Man. Here's How That Can Happen](https://time.com/5099042/influenza-deaths-flu/)  
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by Jamie Ducharme
* ![the-suprising-virulence-of0this-years-flu](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7576285e1890ba03/6988f54fbc6cfc27c23e45df/the-suprising-virulence-of0this-years-flu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 18, 2017  
## [This Year's Flu Virus Could Be Worse Than Usual — And the Vaccine May Not Help](https://time.com/5068553/this-years-flu-virus-could-be-worse-than-usual/)  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)  
by Alice Park
* ![Flu mask](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt20fcafbfa7b8a45a/6988bf3af887dc7513e9984c/doc-mask.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Dec 12, 2017  
## [Is 'Man Flu' a Real Thing? Here's What We Know](https://time.com/5060429/what-is-man-flu/)  
[HEALTH](/section/health/)  
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